ByMandy Penney

Mandy Penney is a professor, stepmom, and knitter, though not necessarily in that order. She is also a moderator at stepchicks.ning.com, a website that offers support, resources, and community for women in blended families. She loves comics, Scrabble, politics, and intersectional feminism—again, not necessarily in that order.

  1. Creative Families: Step Parenting and Beyond

    ByMandy Penney

    in Family

    There’s a magnetic poem on my fridge, and it reads “I love us / family is something creative.” The only hitch is, it’s not my fridge anymore, and hasn’t been for almost a year. My ex-partner and I broke up last year after a four-year relationship, the majority of which was spent co-habitating in the house we bought together. It was also spent parenting his daughter, now 9 years old, with his ex-wife and her…

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